Aligning Course Learning Outcomes with Institutional Learning Outcomes in Canvas

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello.  Is there a way to align Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) with Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) in Canvas?

Background: We do not currently use the native Canvas "Outcomes" tool (either at the account or course level) to put our CLOs or ILOs into the Canvas interface.  However, last year I worked with someone from our IT department to gather all the CLOs of our courses and import them into our Student Information System (SIS), Colleague.  Once the CLOs were successfully added to the courses in our Colleague SIS, our IT guy was able to move those CLOs into part of our Simple Syllabus LTI integration so that instructors and students see those CLOs within their Simple Syllabus documents.  So, even though we have our CLOs now part of our Simple Syllabus documents, we still do not have these CLOs added to the native "Outcomes" tool of Canvas.

We would like to be able to do the following:

• gauge student performance (achieved mastery, intermediate, etc.)
• pre-load outcomes for tracking
• attach a rubric and have outcomes attached to it (I know how to do this)
• see if students are achieving mastery on the rubric
• get data on the above

I tried adding one of our ILOs at the Canvas account level, and then I tried adding a CLO to my sandbox course at the Course level.  I was hoping I could somehow align the CLO with the ILO there, but I was having difficulties doing that.  Also, when I created a new rubric for an assignment, I could only select from a list of outcomes I had in my sandbox course at the Course level.  There wasn't a way for me to select the ILO I had added at the account level.  I was in our school's "beta" environment where it looks like the enhanced rubrics feature has been enabled.

Is anyone using both CLOs and ILOs successfully in Canvas?  Would welcome feedback on this.  Thanks!

[ldavenport4015]

Hello Chris, 

We are not importing any ILOs into Canvas, but we are successfully using Account Level Outcomes for a specific graduate program and using them to measure student mastery across the program. 

We do align the Account level outcomes to the Rubric associated with the assignments, and when the instructors grade on the rubric (and aligned Outcome) the data is gathered in the Course Learning Mastery Gradebook AND in the Outcomes Results Admin Report in Canvas. That report is where the muscle is for reporting on the student mastery across the program. 

You should be able to Import the Account Level Outcomes into the course from the Outcomes Index page in the course, and then align to the rubric. We have created Blueprint courses that include Account Level Rubrics created with aligned Account Level Outcomes and use those to populate our semester courses. I have only done  limited tested with enhanced rubrics feature in our Beta environment, but I am able to use the Account Level Outcomes with the enhanced rubrics enabled. 

Here is the Canvas Guide I used to get started: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-find-an-existing-outcome-to-add-to-a-co...